Chung Y Lo
Chung Y. Lo | |
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| Residence | Nashua, NH, United States |
| Nationality | Chinese / USA |
| Alma mater | Queen's University (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (D.Sc.) |
| Known for | general relativity |
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| Fields | Physicist, Mathematician |
| Institutions | Applied and Pure Research Institute, Nashua, New Hampshire |
| Doctoral advisor | Israel Halperin |
Chung Y. Lo (also published as C. Y. Lo) is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his work on general relativity and for his published criticisms of aspects of Einstein's theory of gravitation, including the interpretation of the mass–energy relation and the theory of gravitational waves. He has been associated with the Applied and Pure Research Institute in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Biography
Lo earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Queen's University in Canada, where he studied under the mathematician Israel Halperin (a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada), and a D.Sc. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. He has stated that he studied general relativity under the Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg.
Lo has worked in the field of gravitation for roughly two decades, and has been affiliated with the Applied and Pure Research Institute in Nashua, New Hampshire. He resides in Nashua.
Scientific contributions
Lo's research focuses on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of general relativity. Across a series of papers he has argued that certain results widely accepted within the field are, in his view, in need of rectification.
Among the positions he has advanced are the claims that the mass–energy relation E = mc2 is only conditionally valid, and that there exists a charge–mass interaction, described as a repulsive force, which he has proposed as an explanation for phenomena such as the Pioneer spacecraft anomaly. He has also written critically on the linearization of the Einstein equation, on Einstein's covariance and equivalence principles, and on the theoretical basis of gravitational-wave detection efforts such as LIGO.
In later work Lo developed what he termed a photon theory of gravity, based on the postulate that low-frequency photons act as the carrier of the gravitational force, from which he sought to recover results resembling those of special and general relativity.
Lo's papers have appeared in venues including Progress in Physics, the International Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, and other journals. His views on general relativity are outside the scientific mainstream.
Abstracts
- 2012 - "How a Shaw Prize Is Awarded for Mathematical Errors of Christodoulou" (Read in full)
- 2011 - "Linearization of the Einstein Equation, and The 1993 Press Release of the Nobel Prize in Physics" (Read in full)
- 2010 - "Comments on the Cylindrically Symmetric Waves of 't Hooft" (Read in full)
- 2010 - "On Experimental Confirmation of the Einstein Equation and the Charge-Mass Repulsive Force" (Read in full)
- 2010 - "NASA's Space-Probes Pioneer Anomaly and the Mass-Charge Repulsive Force" (Read in full)
- 2010 - "On the Nobel Prize in Physics, Controversies, and Errors" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "A Counter Example of Einstein's Covariance Principle" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "Some Rectifiable Inconsistencies and Related Problems in Einstein's General Relativity" (Read in full)
- 2008 - "Einstein?s Requirement for Weak Gravity versus Einstein?s Covariance Principle"
- 2006 - "Completing Einstein's Proof of E=mc2" (Read in full)
- 2006 - "Einstein's Equivalence Principle and Invalidity of Thorne's Theory for LIGO" (Read in full)
- 2006 - "The Gravity of Photons and the Necessary Rectification of Einstein Equation" (Read in full)
- 2006 - "On Interpretations of Hubble's Law and the Bending of Light" (Read in full)